INDIAN GIFTS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

Words from scholars:

• “ India is a cradle of human race, the birth place of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most constructive material in the history of man is treasure up in India only”. ....................................................……………..Mark Twain
• “ India is motherland of our race and Sanskrit is mother of Europe`s languages.india was the mother of all philosophy of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity of self government and democracy. In many ways mother India is mother of all us”. ............................……………..Will Durant
• “ If there is one place on the face of this earth were all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India”. ............…….Romain Rolland
• WEe owe a loat to the Indians, who taught us how to count with ought which no worthwhile scientific discovery to would have been made. ...............................................................………...Albert Einstein
• India conquered and dominated the china culturally for 20 centuries with ought ever having send a single solder across her border. ….............................................................................................…… Hun shih
• “ Many of the advances in science we consider today have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago” . ………................................................................................................Grand Duff

You must know these facts:

• India has never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
• Zero was invented by an Indian Aryabhatta.
• The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100BC.
• The method of graduated calculation was documented in the panch-sidhanta(five principles) in the 5^th century, but the technique is said to be dating from Vedic times.
• The value of pie was first calculated by budhyana and he explained the concept of Pythagorean Theorem too in 6^th century.
• Algebra, trigonometry came from India.
• Quadratic equation was given by sridhcharya in 11^th century.
• The largest number Greeks and Romans used were 10^6 were as Hindus used 10^53 with specific names during the Vedic period. Even today the largest number used s 10^12.
• The words 1^st university was established in takshila in 700BC.More than 10,500 students all over the word studied more than 60 subjects.
• The University of Nalanda built in in 4^th century and it was the one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• Sanskrit is a mother tongue of all European language and is most suitable language for computer software reported in Forbes magazine 1987.
• Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by Earth to orbit the sun hundred years before the Astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit around the sun 365.258756484(5^th century)
• Ayurveda is an earliest school of medicine known to humans. Chakra the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today the ayurveda is fast regaining right full place in our civilization.
• The art of navigation was born in rover sindh 6000 years ago. Navigation is derived from Sanskrit word NAVGAITH.the word navy is also derived from Sanskrit word `nou`.
• According to geological institute of America, India was only source of diamond until 1986.
• Chess (satranj or astapada) was invented in India.
• Sushruta was father of surgery, 2600 years ago he and his health scientist of his time conducted complex surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and even brain surgery, use of anesthesia was well known in ancient India.
• Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity’s also found in Indian ancient text.
• The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in sure.
• When many culture were nomadic forest dwellers, Indian established hardpan culture in sindhu valley (Indus valley civilization)

Now its time to know about India contribution to to production and mechanical engineering.

• In ancient time commodities like sugar, palm oil, coconut oil, cotton cloth, indigo, tin sheets, copper vessel, sandalwood, camphor and even glass crockery were exported to rest of the world.
• The earliest recorded use of copperware in India has been around 3000BC.Tthe findings of mohan-jo-darao and Harappa bear this out to be earliest documentation observation of smelting of metals in India by Greek historians by 4^th century BC.

Current information

• There are 3.24 million Indians in America.
• 38% doctors in America are Indians.
• 12% scientist in America is Indians.
• 36% NASA employees in America are Indians.
• 34% MICROSOFT employees are Indians.
• 28%IBM employees are Indians.
• 18%INTEL employees are Indians.
• 13%XEROX employees are Indians.
• First democracy to elect women as prime minister.
• India is 7^th nuclear power in the world.
• 5^th largest growing economy.
• India is 4^th nation in the world to develop nuclear submarine.
• India is 5^th nation in the world to be in multibillion dollar space commerce space.
• India is 3^rd nation in the world to developing based and sea based cruise missiles.
• India has witnessed the second highest growth rate in the world surpassing major countries.

................................“BE PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN JAI HIND “.....................